Saw a fire worm under a dissecting scope today and lots of Christmas tree worms around the MPA protected reefs. Kaela straight up grabbed the fireworm, and some fireworms are dangerous. Luckily this fireworm was small and had few bristles so it did not hurt her as much as a mature fireworm. As a class, we all collected a wide variety of different species in under an hour, just by standing and waiting in the seagrass bed. Straight up chilled for about an hour and we ended up with so many different species!

I woke up today at around 5:50am and I was just super hungry. So you can say I was excited for breakfast, and Aunt Annette and Jamelle came in clutch. Breakfast we had tortillas, eggs, sausage, and juice. As we were on our way back to Glover’s, I literally told myself that I could use some good fried chicken, and at lunch we had friend chicken, fries, and cole slaw. Literally made my day. Dinner, we had mac and cheese, mashed potatoes, beef stew, baked chicken, and as an added bonus, we also had birthday cake since it was Kaela’s big 21. Hope your birthday was great Kaela!

Went out for our surveys today and we collected data from both MPA protected reefs and non-protected MPA reefs. Class biased on first survey but better on second. But still could have been better. I was very tired after this and I definitely felt like I was dehydrated. I nearly drank all the water in my water bottle (48oz)! That does it for today’s blog, see you tomorrow!

Picture: two bearded fireworms that were found!!